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- Title
All Quiet on the Western Front"1.
- Abstract
This article discusses the motion picture "All Quiet on the Western Front." The film was the only unmixed blessing the Germans ever received from Hollywood. The characters brought forth the most generous responses from the audience; one simply could not think of them as enemies. Their troubles were universal ones, shared by all who went through the Great War. Even the villains of the film were portrayed as universal types rather than Germanic types. The film marked the high water mark of pro-German sentiment. It was soon followed by other films which were not so completely favorable in their presentation. The German industrialist in Grand Hotel, played by Wallace Beery, displays despicable traits, including sadistic cruelty and indifference to others, greed, deceit on a grand scale--traits which somehow seem to be sterotyped qualities.
- Subjects
GERMANY; ALL Quiet on the Western Front (Film : 1930); GERMANS in motion pictures; MOTION picture industry; BEERY, Wallace; ANTI-German boycotts
- Publication
Film & History (03603695), 1973, Vol 3, Issue 2, p9
- ISSN
0360-3695
- Publication type
Entertainment Review